England Quotes - Page 14

• The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

  William Blackstone

  Bible, Christian, Law

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• The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, War, Men

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• I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Running, America, World

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• Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

  Brian Clough

  Running, Jobs, Done

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• Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.

  Alex Webb

  Emotional, Light, Color

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• New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Destiny, Civilization

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• So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Dark, Secret

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• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  Felix de Weldon

  Men, Ambassadors, London

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• Boy, the things I do for England.

  Prince Charles

  Work, Boys

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Issues, Russia

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• The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

  Derek Jarman

  Sound, Cinema, Stories

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• The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Law, Grievance, Nations

  Gilbert Burnet, Sir Thomas Burnet (1734). “Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time ...: From the revolution to the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne. To which is added, the author's life, by the editor”, p.658

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• We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Beats, Massacres

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• Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

  Barry Davies

  Soccer, Football, Poland

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• Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

  Zola Budd

  Tea, Favourite, Shops

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• I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.

  Teddy Sheringham

  Games, Careers, Justice

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• The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Judging, Trials

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• Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Writing, Learning

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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Sick, Navy

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

  Wallace Mercer

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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• Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Games, Seven

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• I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

  George Bernard Shaw

  Should Have, Taverns, Fool

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

  John Stuart Mill

  Struggle, Rome, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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